Save your Medium articles to your computer in markdown

I really like the editing tools and community on Medium, but I want to keep all my writing in a centralized place. So I wrote a script based upon my dataflow programming with Rake post that pulls down my latest medium articles, converts to markdown, and downloads any associated images so I can keep my own copy on my domain.

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ActionCable is WebSockets on rails. This lets you create realtime, interactive systems, where you can push data from one client to another client without reloading or polling. But how do we deploy it on heroku?
ActionCable is composed to two main parts: a javascript client library, and a backend pub/sub system built upon Redis. We’re also going to use ActiveJob to offload the publishing tasks from the main user thread, so we’ll also be setting up sidekiq.

I’ve been working to update seed, which is HappyFunCorp’s app generator to make it easy to kick off MVPs. Check out the website for more information. One of the things that I’ve started to do is to seperate out the dependancies more, and being tutorials on how to use each of the different features. After I link to that stuff, let’s walk through a way to combine different techniques we’ve discussed together.

We’re going to build a simple, niave search for middleman blogs. We’re going to build a search index at build time, and then use that index to perform the search itself on the client side.
Building the index When you typed in something in google, it doesn’t then go and hit every page on the internet to check to see if there’s a match. It doesn’t even look at every page that it has squirreled away somewhere in the googleplex.